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Did a bit of shopping at Belmont Forum a couple of hours ago.

I looked and looked but I did not see anyone apart from me wearing a mask.

What a total (deliberate) public health messaging failure by our governments with the flu and Covid still running rampant and a couple of new variants (Eris and Fornax) already spreading around the world and now spreading in Australia.

Take a bow, Australian pollies (Labor and Liberal). I'm sure your big business masters are proud of you. "Masks are sand in the gears of the economy" (according to them).

https://nitter.net/LettersfromTim/status/1696015946924896763#m

“But neither variant seems to cause more severe disease than earlier Omicron strains which were themselves less virulent than the pre-Omicron variants,” Dr Joel Zinberg wrote for the NY Post last week.

Fails to mention omicron is responsible for most of the deaths worldwide…

Yep.

And, I bet if I asked any of the coughing, spluttering people I heard and saw when I was shopping (some of them sounded like they were hacking up a lung) I'm sure they would all say something like "Oh, it's just a cold".

Unbelievable.

Needless to say, Tim never received a reply from Roger. 

Makes me wonder why these pollies even bother having social media accounts because they never reply to anyone (except to themselves when they have more BS to add to a previous post).

Of course we all know they don't post (or read) anything themselves - they have a (probably overpaid) social media 'team' to deal with all that.

And, I will ask again - what is the point of telling people to "use personal responsibility" (lol) and "assess their own risk" (lol again) regarding Covid when governments are slowly but surely removing the data and information needed for them to do so (even if they were capable of doing so or even cared)?

Once again, the "lols" are because we've all seen how well "personal responsibilty" works with a population the majority of whom have the attention span of a goldfish and can't think any further ahead than what's for dinner tonight or what's on Netflix or when they can take their next overseas or interstate holiday.

aquascoot wrote on Sep 12^th, 2023 at 6:58pm:


"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind"

- C.S. Lewis.

As for the rest of your word salad:

"What a load of bollocks"

- Carl D.

Carl D wrote on Sep 12^th, 2023 at 11:02pm:



incorrect.

if a million people are doing one thing and you arent, its highly probable that YOU are the idiot.

not always, but 99.999999% of the time.

you over estimate your intelligence carl

now, have  you booked your flights to melbourne for the grand final where you can re enter normal society ?

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 14^th, 2023 at 12:57pm:



up to date currently means

NO NEED FOR BOOSTERS 

aquascoot wrote on Sep 12^th, 2023 at 6:58pm:


I was reading yesterday about nurses and healthcare workers somewhere overseas who, after an average of 5 Covid infections are either too ill to work anymore (Long Covid) or they've just had enough of being sick all the time so they've quit.

Might have been Canada or the UK, can't remember where.

Doesn't bode well for healthcare, does it? Too many sick people and not enough nurses and other staff to care for them because they're also sick and/or quitting in large numbers.

I also read something the other day where an ex virologist believes that if today's insane amount of air travel had been around during the time of the 'Spanish' flu (1918-1920) then more than a billion people could have died.

That would have almost been an ELE (Extinction Level Event) when you consider the world population at the time was 1.8 billion, don't you think?

(The death toll from the 'Spanish' flu was estimated to have been 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, 17 million would have been 1% of the world's population at the time).